Ice-creeper for horses.



E. KILGUP.

ICE GBEEPBR FOB, HORSES.

APPLIOATION FILED 1,111.9, 1911.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

ERNEST KILCUP, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ICE-CREEPER FOR HORSES.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

Application led January 9, 1911. Serial No. 601,720.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST KILCUP, a citizenof the United States, residing at Boston, county of Suffolk, and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Ice- Creepers forHorses, of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawingrepresenting like parts.

This invention relates to ice Creepers for horses and has for its objectto provide a novel ice creeper which can be readily attached to a shoeor detached therefrom and which is constructed so that when applied tothe shoe it will be firmly clamped thereon.

The novel features of my invention will first be described and thenpointed out in the appended claim.

Referring now to the drawings, Figure 1 is an underside plan view of ahorseshoe having my ice creeper applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a section onthe line Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the ice creeperremoved.

3 designates a horseshoe having any suitable or usual construction.

My improved ice creeper comprises a plate or member 4 which is adaptedto underlie the horseshoe 3 and is shaped so that it will bea-r againsta horseshoe on both sides there, of. The plate herein shown is providedwith the side bar 5 which underlies one side of the horseshoe and withthe cross bars 6 which are of suflicient length so that the ends 7thereof underlie the opposite side of the horse shoe, as clearly seen inFig. 1. The plate L is provided with the lips 8 that are adapted toembrace the edge of the horseshoe, as seen in Fig. 2, and the device isheld in position by a clamping member 9 having a lip 14 which is adaptedto embrace the opposite edge of the horse shoe. This clamping member 9is provided with a screwthreaded stem 10 which extends through a bridgepiece 11 connecting the two cross members 6 and said stem is engaged bya clamping nut 12 which occupies the central opening in the plate. Theplate 4 is provided with several calks 13, and these may conveniently beremovable calks which are screwed into the plate in a manner similar tothe well-known never-slip calk. The clamping member 9 is also providedwith a calk 15 which may conveniently be of the removable type, althoughthis is not essential.

In using this device it may be readily placed on the horseshoe with thelips 8 embracing one side thereof and the clamping member 9 may then beplaced in position with the stem 10 extending through the bridge piece11 and the lip 14 embracing the opposite side of the horseshoe, afterwhich by tightening up the nut 12 the device will be securely clamped tothe horseshoe, as will be obvious. r

My ice creeper can be very easily made and quickly applied or removedfrom a horseshoe. I

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In an ice creeper for horseshoes, thecombination with a plate having a central aperture thereby to present aportion 5 to underlie one side of the horseshoe, two end portions 6 tounderlie the front and rear ends of the horseshoe, and a bridge pier 11,said end portions 6 extending beyond the bridge piece to form arms orportions 7 that underlie the opposite side of the horseshoe, said bridgepiece being sosituated that when the ice creeper is applied to thehorseshoe, the bridge piece will be situated inside of said oppositeside of the horseshoe, of lips 8 extending upwardly from the portion 5of the plate and adapted to embrace the edge of the horseshoe, aclamping member 9 adapted to underlie the portion of the horseshoe withwhich the arms 7 engage and said member 9 having a lip 14; to embracethe edge of the horseshoe and provided with an inwardly-extendingscrew-threaded shank which extends through the bridge piece 11, and anut screw-threaded to said shank and clamping the creeper to thehorseshoe, said plate and said clamping member each having calksextending therefrom.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST KILCUP.

Witnesses LoUrs C. SMITH, THOMAS J. DRUMMOND.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

It is hereby Certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,051,395, grantedFebruary 1,

1913, upon the application of Ernest Kileup, of Boston, Massachusetts,for an improvement in Ice-Creepers for Horses, an error appears in theprinted specileation requiring correction as follows: Line 7S, for theword pier read piece; and

that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction thereinthat the same may conform to the record of the case in the PatentCilice.

Signed and sealed this 18th day of March, A. D., 1913.

C. C. BILLINGS,

[SEAL] Acting Commissioner of Paents.

